2012 South Brevard Science Fair

In addition to competing in the Catholic Schools Science Fair in February, the winners of the St. Joseph Science Fair competed in the Brevard County South Area Science Fair in March. Here is how our students faired.

Environmental

Grade 3:
Sophia Lamela
2nd Place
Grade 6:
Natalie Vara
5th Place

Biological

Grade 3:
Enrique Molinares
2nd Place
Grade 4:
Ben Yost
1st Place
Grade 6:
Monique Haynes
4th Place

Physical

Grade 3:
Noah Schneider
1st Place
Grade 6:
Gian-Carlo Ay
4th Place

 

Perfect Readiness

St. Joseph School received a perfect Readiness Rate of 200 for the 2008-2009 School Year. This score indicates our students’ readiness for Kindergarten. Only 17 VPK providers out of more than 150 in Brevard County received this perfect score.

Scrip Update

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Fingerprint Clearances

When it is time to do fingerprints for volunteering whether it be for the first time or for renewal, there is now an additional step in the process. After you register for the prints and have your bar code, you must take the Safe Environment Training class and test. St. Joseph School will NOT be notified that your fingerprints have cleared until after you have taken and passed the Safe Environment Training test. For complete details on the fingerprinting process, see the directions on the St. Joseph website, www.st-joe.org.

ITBS Testing News

The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) will be administered to students in grades 3-8th in October. The ITBS test is a nationally norm referenced test which compares students with others across the nation. In order for the test to be reliable and valid, schools need to replicate the standardization for comparable results. Since the standardized group the norms were based on was not given any test preparation, Riverside Publishing recommends that test preparation be limited to test taking skills and not test content. Information from the test is used to evaluate curriculum and individual student progress. For more information about the ITBS test visit www.riversidepublishing.com

The Diocese of Orlando mandated that we change our testing program this year and use 2005 norms. Since new norms were used, data is not available to compare students’ performances from the past years to this year. Our valid and reliable scores this year indicate that students in grades 3-8 averaged better than 72.5% of students nationally!

Fingerprint Clearances

When it is time to do fingerprints for volunteering whether it be for the first time or for renewal, there is now an additional step in the process. After you register for the prints and have your bar code, you must take the Safe Environment Training class and test. St. Joseph School will NOT be notified that your fingerprints have cleared until after you have taken and passed the Safe Environment Training test. For complete details on the fingerprinting process, see the directions on the St. Joseph website, www.st-joe.org.